USMNT will play friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina on December

The United States Men's National Soccer Team will play a friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 18 at Carson, California, to keep its Major League Soccer-based players fit ahead of January World Cup qualifiers.

The match announced Tuesday is not on a FIFA international fixture date, which means neither team will have most of its Europe-based players.

USMNT, focused on Mexico

The U.S. is second in the final round of the World Cup qualifying in North and Central American and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) through six of 14 matches. The USMNT host Mexico on November 12 at Cincinnati and are at Jamaica four days later, then play three qualifiers from January 27 to February 2 and their final three from March 24-30.

MLS's regular season ends Sunday and its postseason ends December 11. The U.S. training camp will start December 5 at Carson.

Coach Gregg Berhalter also plans a January training camp for the MLS players before the Europe-based players report ahead of the qualifiers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is fourth in Europe Group D behind France, Ukraine and Finland heading into qualifiers against Finland on November 13 and Ukraine four days later, both in Zenica.